A leaked tape in which Donald Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen discuss a payment to a former Playboy model has set off a high-level debate about whether Trump said the word “don’t” before saying the words “pay with cash.”
The debate resembles the recent viral “Yanny vs. Laurel” argument about what name was pronounced on a particular audio clip. Except this time, the question of what is heard on the tape is relevant to the question of whether the president tried to hide a payoff to conceal an extramarital affair.
The conversation was recorded about two months before the 2016 presidential election, CNN reported.